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Evil Quotes by Hannah Arendt
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the…
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
- As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false…
- This inability to think created the possibility for many ordinary men to commit evil deeds on a gigantic scale, the like of which had never…
- There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.
- When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a…
- Promises are the uniquely human way of orderin The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds…
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
- No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people… — Chester A. Arthur
- Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin
- Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine
- He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a… — Saint Augustine
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine